Naukan Yupik language
or Naukan Siberian Yupik language (Naukan Yupik: Nuvuqaghmiistun) is a critically endangered
Eskimo language
The Eskaleut (), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent and a small part of northeastern Asia. Languages in the family are indigenous to parts of w ...
spoken by ca. 70
Naukan persons (''нывуӄаӷмит'') on the
Chukotka peninsula. It is one of the four
Yupik languages
The Yupik languages () are a family of languages spoken by the Yupik peoples of western and south-central Alaska and Chukotka. The Yupik languages differ enough from one another that they are not mutually intelligible, although speakers of one ...
, along with
Central Siberian Yupik,
Central Alaskan Yup'ik Central Alaskan Yup'ik may refer to:
* Central Alaskan Yup'ik people
* Central Alaskan Yup'ik language
Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object.
Central may also refer to:
Direction ...
and
Pacific Gulf Yupik.
Linguistically, it is intermediate between Central Siberian Yupik and Central Alaskan Yup'ik.
Morphology
Chart example of the
oblique case
In grammar, an oblique (abbreviated ; from la, casus obliquus) or objective case (abbr. ) is a nominal case other than the nominative case, and sometimes, the vocative.
A noun or pronoun in the oblique case can generally appear in any role exc ...
:
The non-possessed endings in the chart may cause a base-final 'weak' ʀ to drop with compensatory
gemination
In phonetics and phonology, gemination (), or consonant lengthening (from Latin 'doubling', itself from ''gemini'' 'twins'), is an articulation of a consonant for a longer period of time than that of a singleton consonant. It is distinct from s ...
in Inu. Initial m reflects the singular relative marker. The forms with initial n (k or t) are combined to produce possessed oblique with the corresponding absolutive endings in the 3rd person case but with variants of the relative endings for the other persons.
In proto-Eskimo, the ŋ is often dropped within morphemes except when next to ə. ŋ is also dropped under productive velar dropping (the dropping of ɣ,ʀ, and ŋ between single vowels), and "ana" goes to "ii" in theses areas.
Numerals
# ataasiq
# maalghut
# pingayut
# sitamat
# tallimat
# aghvinelek
# maalghugneng aghvinelek
# pingayuneng aghvinelek
# qulngughutngilnguq
# qulmeng
# atghanelek
# maalghugneng atghanelek
# pingayuneng atghanelek
# akimiaghutngilnguq
# akimiaq
# akimiaq ataasimeng
# akimiaq maalghugneng
# akimiaq pingayuneng
# yuinaghutngilnguq
# yuinaq
Notes
References
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Languages of Russia
Endangered Eskaleut languages
Yupik languages
Siberian Yupik
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